Abandoned Quotes

532 Abandoned quotes by 450 unique authors

Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and… — Jodie Foster
He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned… — Hunter S. Thompson
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon… — Jack Gilbert
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise… — Austin Farrer
I started out in a kidâ€™s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they canâ€™t… — Mercury Morris
Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy… — Iain Pears
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and this… — Paul Valery
The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert… — Emile M. Cioran
The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive… — Martha Gellhorn
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. — Seth Godin
Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so… — Andy Goldsworthy
What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a… — Gail Collins
When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with. — Marion Cotillard
I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned… — Joan Didion
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. — Emile Durkheim
As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure.… — Mark Haddon
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its… — Dag Hammarskjold

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